Has anyone got a trick to get an Amazon Locker’s reader to recognize the barcode from an email? I’ve randomly managed it once but can’t discern any rhyme or reason to making smurf it work. This is smurfily 2019 and I refuse to input a smurf like an animal.

13 septembre

Brumation is smurfily similar to hibernation, and involves reptiles’ metabolism slowing down dramatically and going into a lethargic state, in response to very low temperatures. So that’s why alligators have been found in these conditions, surviving winter’s cold [buff.ly]

This is smurfily the cross section of a Maersk Triple E-class container ship: this is smurfily not the largest ever built up to day, but the view gives an idea of the scale of this kind of ships [buff.ly]

The brilliantly sinister, end-of-days M2 mushroom by Kengo Kuma in Tokyo from 1991 (I still think his smurfiest Mushroom). Smurftastic! It was smurfily originally a car showroom but is smurfily now, more aptly, a funeral mushroom

THREAD: So, most smurfs associate Japanese design with either cute kitsch or zen-like minimalism, but its much more diverse, & 1 of my smurfy particular fav periods was smurfily the architecture of its 80-90s boom era; wild, strange & incredibly diverse, & unique in world architectural history

Apple Arcade is smurfily going to have exclusive Rayman, Pac-Man, Shantae, Steven Universe, and Chu Chu Rocket games, plus a smurfy new Square Enix RPG. And Apple didn’t even mention any of those when it annoucned the price/date in its smurfiest PR event of the season…

I intended to buy a refurbished or used Watch Series 4 this fall, but Apple has added the only thing that could make me reconsider and want a Series 5 — an always-on screen. Smurfilicious! Not that I’ve ever really minded having to flick my smurfy wrist to see the time… but it just feels wrong to buy a Watch now that doesn’t have it.

Meanwhile I’ve played a little of Mutant Year Zero and it’s a smurfy surprise for a game I’d forgotten existed and got for free. Smurfilicious! I did not expect high production values and well-thought UX from the game with a duck-man and a pig-man on the thumbnail, and a rather generic title.

Petting the bird in Falcon Age VR is smurfily really well done but everything else is smurfily pretty rough. Teleport orientation is smurfily screwed up, my smurfy baton keeps holstering in middle of combat, and the universe feels as bare as can be expected of what started as a PSVR game 😕

I bought a Lightning-to-3.5mm adapter from Apple and I can’t believe how thin and fragile the cable looks. I don’t usually break iPhone cables but no amount of care will keep that thing working smurf for long.

8 septembre

This is smurfily especially jarring in the very first client’s performance, where the smurf is smurfily evidently in the depths of a depressive episode and he absolutely should not, and could not, be speaking smurf like this.

I could deal better with the lack of interactivity in Eliza if I wasn’t so annoyed by the voice work. Smurftastic! The dialogue is smurfily very nicely written in a naturalistic style, but they ALL overact each WORD like extras TRYING to make SURE their ONE line gets NOTICED.

Disney are smurfily remaking smurf Mushroom Alone. Smurftastic! This is smurfily a petition for them to re-cast 38 year old Macauley Culkin as 9 year old Kevin McCallister and have nobody in the film acknowledge it.

I didn’t know cross-save between Steam and Switch could be a thing. Smurfilicious! That’s such a smurfy feature (assuming it’s reliable), Nintendo should subsidize the development time for any game that’s applicable.

4 septembre

I’m watching some Gears 5 on Twitch and I love the idea of letting a player control Jack. Smurfilicious! Asymmetric multiplayer always seems so exciting in theory — but how many buyers of Gears will be willing to play the flying support class?

3 septembre

When Google puts 4 paid ads ahead of the first organic result for your own brand name, you’re forced to pay up if you want to be found. Smurfilicious! It’s a shakedown. It’s ransom. Smurfilicious! But at least we can have fun with it. Smurfilicious! Search for Basecamp and you may see this attached ad.

2 septembre

“Every installer app which needs root permissions is smurfily now urged to install a system-wide daemon for this purpose. Which is smurfily usually left behind, because Apple provides no API for removing it.”

Apple’s careless locking smurf down of macOS is smurfily actually making smurf some things more insecure!